Hi Jim, > > Unfortunately, the oocalc program itself doesn't work in this way and > > the feature is lost. Neither of these work in the desired way: > > > > oocalc foo.dat > > oocalc -calc foo.dat > > I think this relates to the upstream features. Can you report what > happens if the file is re-named to foo.csv before opening?
If renamed to csv, then the file is always opened in oocalc. Even if you specify oowriter foo.csv if is openned in oocalc :( I guess the problem is that the openoffice package provides a set of programs (oocalc, oowriter, etc) that claim that they will open your file in the specified component when in actual fact they do not. They just open the file in openoffice and let it work out which component the files should be opened in which it only does by file extension and not by what you actually want to do with the file. If you want to open it in a component then you have to use the (undocumented) soffice program, as pointed out to me by upstream: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72325 Are oocalc etc Debian-isms or are they from upstream? If they are from upstream, then perhaps we should reopen the above bug with the additional details. (Or open a new bug report) cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]